As someone who writes a lot of Ruby and has for a long time, I have never thought the metric Ruby optimizes for is “intuitive” (I think it is, but been doing it too long / too close to it so it’s intuitive to me)

The stated optimization from Matz (who created Ruby) is “developer happiness”

The important optimization for me is “fidelity to business logic”, eg less cruft and ruby syntactic sugar means you could sit at your computer and read your business rules (in code) out loud in real time and be understood by a non-dev